What's your pitch perception ability score?

[aphex]

http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/

The lower your score, the better. You'll need your speakers or headphones on.

"At 500 Hz, you can reliably differentiate two tones 1.05 Hz apart"

Those .375 ones really threw me off, I couldn't hear a difference.

 

[sobriquet]

I got the same result, 1.05 Hz.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

More fun
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=test

(on my gf's laptop and it's after midnight, so no testing for me now)

 

[thomsbrain]

only got down to like 2.5 Hz, very disappointed in myself.

 

[Dimmu]

At 500 Hz, you can reliably differentiate two tones 2.4 Hz apart."

For all the loud concerts I've been to over the years, and playing drums for the last 7, my hearing is still pretty good. That's reassuring, I suppose.

 

[dighn]

tried it 3 times, 2.1, 0.825, 0.5625. looks like one can get better at it.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

At 500 Hz, you can reliably differentiate two tones 0.7125 Hz apart

Not too shabby

 

[sobriquet]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
More fun
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=test

(on my gf's laptop and it's after midnight, so no testing for me now)

I'm glad you posted the follow up from that experiment. I read through the paper that was posted, and I still find myself scratching my head, if only because I don't seem to fit into their model. According to the test, I had a strong bias toward listening to the fundamental. As per their results, I should prefer short or high-pitched sounds with little timbral information (or at least little timbral change over time). Instead, I'm a tuba player with a very strong preference for lower pitched instruments, and some of my favorite music involves a single tone evolving over large expanses of time. I'm willing to accept my status as a fluke, I suppose, but with that position comes a certain amount of skepticism about their results. Still, very fascinating subject matter.

 

[George P Burdell]

1.8

 

[Viper GTS]

I'll have to try this when I get back to my hotel, I'm on a laptop but I do have decent headphones (Shure SE-420's) and a USB DAC.

Marked for later.

Viper GTS

 

[SpiderWiz]

hmmm, maybe I need to get my hearing checked. 27.6 (that was the better of two attempts.)

 

[TestedAcorn]

I stopped hearing differences at 1.5hz.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: sobriquet

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
More fun
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=test

(on my gf's laptop and it's after midnight, so no testing for me now)

I'm glad you posted the follow up from that experiment. I read through the paper that was posted, and I still find myself scratching my head, if only because I don't seem to fit into their model. According to the test, I had a strong bias toward listening to the fundamental. As per their results, I should prefer short or high-pitched sounds with little timbral information (or at least little timbral change over time). Instead, I'm a tuba player with a very strong preference for lower pitched instruments, and some of my favorite music involves a single tone evolving over large expanses of time. I'm willing to accept my status as a fluke, I suppose, but with that position comes a certain amount of skepticism about their results. Still, very fascinating subject matter.

I'm similarly skeptical about the music preferences tied to this. I do think it's a pretty cool test though, if for nothing else the experience of arguing with my gf if pitches were going up or down when I first tried the test before sharing it with AT.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I stopped hearing it at 0.75, then it was just a matter of luck, which apparently I didnt have LOL so it was like 0.75 - 1.5 - 0.75 - 1.5 (right wrong right wrong)

Anyway I dont trust this somehow, because the average person absolutely sucks when it comes to telling the difference between notes when a song is played, and they happily play off tune without noticing... However the results page tells us that less than 4 is the normal ear? I beg to differ, either they are only testing audiophiles or somethings wrong with that statistic

 

[paulxcook]

1.5 hz. If I were wearing good earphones I think I would've done better, I was able to get a lot of the tones around the .5 - .7 range, but sometimes I just couldn't quite tell. .375 sounded all the same to me.

 

[nightowl]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
I stopped hearing it at 0.75, then it was just a matter of luck, which apparently I didnt have LOL so it was like 0.75 - 1.5 - 0.75 - 1.5 (right wrong right wrong)

Anyway I dont trust this somehow, because the average person absolutely sucks when it comes to telling the difference between notes when a song is played, and they happily play off tune without noticing... However the results page tells us that less than 4 is the normal ear? I beg to differ, either they are only testing audiophiles or somethings wrong with that statistic

Well, in your example with the song it is not an A/B comparison like I assume it is in the test.

 

[Cogman]

1.5 reliable, but I was able to get down to 0.375 correct (then I would mess up every so often, almost seems unfair, one mistake and it raises the difference but it takes like 20 correct to lower the difference)

 

[Descartes]

2.625 on a laptop. I'll try with headphones later, assuming that having taken the test already won't skew the results.

 

[aphex]

Are you guys going full through to the end where it gives you your score? Or just noting how low you can go?

 

[legoman666]

1.275hz

wonder if i could do better if i wasnt using crappy laptop speakers?

 

[aphex]

Awesome! I got down past the .375 reliably and was in the .1875 range where I had some trouble...


At 500 Hz, you can reliably differentiate two tones 0.75 Hz apart

 

[Gooberlx2]

Pitch - 1.8Hz
Tonedeaf - 83.3%
Rhythm - 88% (though I think I could do better)

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
I stopped hearing it at 0.75, then it was just a matter of luck, which apparently I didnt have LOL so it was like 0.75 - 1.5 - 0.75 - 1.5 (right wrong right wrong)

Anyway I dont trust this somehow, because the average person absolutely sucks when it comes to telling the difference between notes when a song is played, and they happily play off tune without noticing... However the results page tells us that less than 4 is the normal ear? I beg to differ, either they are only testing audiophiles or somethings wrong with that statistic

I imagine the flaw comes from people being able to retake the test and improve.

 

[darkxshade]

tagged for later

 

[hellokeith]

.375 Hz is where I made my first mistake. I scored in 87th percentile on final chart.

This was in a noisy room on a crappy PC mobo sound w/ mini headphones.

If I remember, I'll do it again from home on my good setup.